Women's Tennis

Dima Hrynashka completed his eighth year as the head coach of
Sacramento State women’s tennis program in 2014. Hrynashka
had served as an assistant coach during the 2005-06 season before
being promoted to head coach following the year.

In his eight seasons as the team’s head coach, the five-time
Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year has led the Hornets to a
137-76 overall record and a 64-3 Big Sky Conference record.
Hrynashka has guided the Hornets to a Big Sky Tournament title and
an NCAA Tournament appearance in each of his eight seasons while
also winning the regular season conference title seven times. His
players have earned 37 all-conference awards, including seven MVPs
and 24 first team selections. The team won 112 consecutive Big Sky
matches dating from 2002 through 2014, an unmatched conference
record in any sport.

Sacramento State's nearly 13-year Big Sky winning streak, dating
back to 2002, was put in jeopardy by a rash of injuries during
the 2014 season. The program saw its record 112-match
conference winning streak come to a close with a 4-3 loss at
Montana on April 11, ending the longest conference winning streak
in any sport in Big Sky history. The Hornets finished the regular
season with a 7-3 Big Sky mark but, as host of the Big Sky
Tournament, won quarterfinal and semifinal matches to face Montana
in the final. An epic match was clinched by sophomore Olivia Boija
for a 4-3 win as the Hornets claimed their 13th consecutive Big Sky
title and went on to face No. 3 UCLA in the NCAA Tournament. Senior
Sophie Lohscheidt and sophomore Daria Savchenko were All-Big Sky
first team selections while freshman Alina Soltanici was named to
the second team and Boija earned honorable mention.

In 2013 the Hornets extended their incredible Big Sky winning
streak to 105 consecutive matches. The team won its 12th
conseuctive Big Sky title with a 4-1 win over Montana in the title
match of the conference tournament, which they again hosted, and
faced No. 5 USC in the NCAA Tournament. Senior Rebeca Delgado was
named the Big Sky MVP for the first time after leading the team
with a 10-0 conference record at No. 1 singles while Jennifer
Nguyen and Olivia Boija joined Delgado on the All-Big Sky First
Team and junior Katharina Knoebl was an honorable mention
selection.

Hrynashka led Sacramento State to a perfect 8-0 mark in conference
play for the sixth straight season in 2012. Sacramento State hosted
the 2012 Big Sky Conference Tournament and defeated Northern
Colorado, 4-0, in the semifinals before taking the tournament
title, 4-0, versus Montana. Senior Tatsiana Kapshai earned her
third consecutive Big Sky Conference MVP award in 2012 and was
joined on the league’s first team by senior Clarisse Baca and
junior Rebeca Delgado while senior Maria Meliuk earned second team
all-league honors. The Hornets were ranked as high as No. 43 in the
nation and went 17-9 on the season after playing a schedule which
featured 10 nationally ranked foes.

In 2011, the Hornets (19-8, 8-0 Big Sky) were ranked as high No.
29 in the nation after going 6-2 in their first eight matches with
their only losses to No. 5 ranked UCLA and No. 6 ranked California.
Sacramento State was perfect in conference play, won the Big Sky
regular season and tournament titles and Hrynashka earned Coach of
the Year honors for the fourth straight season. Baca posted a 20-8
singles record to the Hornets, which was the first 20-win season
for the program since 2008.

The 2010 season saw Hrynashka guide a young club that just one
junior and one senio for most of the year. The Hornets once again
posted a perfect 8-0 mark in Big Sky Conference play while they
went 19-6 overall, posting a 4-6 mark against ranked opponents and
lost just two matches to teams ranked outside of the top 20.

In 2009, Hrynashka led the Hornets to a 19-9 record and their
eighth straight conference title. Hrynashka juggled a lineup that
saw many of his top players miss time due to injury at various
points of the season. The Hornets reached as high as No. 34 in the
national rankings under his watch. The Hornets, who nearly upset
17th-ranked Michigan in the first round, had five players selected
to the all-conference team, highlighted by Katrina Zheltova being
named MVP for the third straight year.

In 2008, Hrynashka won his first Big Sky Coach of the Year award
after leading a Hornet squad without a senior on the roster to a
21-7 record, including a perfect 8-0 mark in the Big Sky and an
NCAA Tournament appearance. Zheltova, who was named the Big
Sky’s MVP, gained All-America status by reaching the Sweet 16
of the NCAA Singles Championship and finishing the season ranked
28th in the nation.

In 2007, despite a roster that included six underclassmen (two
freshmen and four sophomores), and only one senior, Hrynashka
coached the team to a 17-7 overall record, a 7-0 mark in the Big
Sky, a conference regular season and tournament championship, and
an NCAA Tournament appearance.

Hrynashka began his coaching career in 1998, when he tutored youth
players for three years at the Olympic Center of Belarus. In 2003,
he moved on to coaching the 14-under girls and boys national team
of Belarus. His time with the national youth teams was highlighted
by his girls 14-under team winning the 2003 world championship.

As a player, Hrynashka was coached by current Sacramento State
head men’s tennis coach Slava Konikov. At 14 years old,
Hrynashka was competing for the Belarus national team, and at age
16, was ranked eighth in Russia’s junior class. He was a
four-time Belarus youth doubles champion and won the junior
national singles championship when he was 16 years old. At the age
of 18, Hrynashka turned pro, but his career ended prematurely with
a back injury that forced him to retire.